Re: Invalid shell assignments in environment

["Don Cragun" <dcragun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, July 2, 2009 14:01, wollman+austin-group@lcs.mit.edu wrote:
> <<On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:55:46 -0400, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> said:
>
>>> One question though, are we talking about a portable character set for
>>> variable names, variable values, or both?   Don't know if there's a need to
>>> ensure the portability of values but I see a substantial value in
>>> standardizing the character set for variable names, to ASCII ideally.
>
>> Variable names.
>
> Hmmm.  In what character set is the value of the LANG and LC_*
> environment variables?
>
> -GAWollman

The character set used in the shell is controlled by the setting of
LC_CTYPE when the shell was invoked.  Note that changing
the value of LC_CTYPE does not affect the current shell
execution environment, but does affect everything started by the
shell after LC_CTYPE is changed.

 - Don